Saving fillable form fields to be created as a template

Hi, I'm hoping someone can tell me if Adobe Acrobat Pro 8/9/10 has the option to save all Fillable Data fields such as Text Fields, Check Boxes, Signatures, Dates ect. and save these data elements to be imported onto similar or exact PDF Layouts so that it can save me the time to insert every single one of these data fields, draw each field neatly, then name each field into their locations on the form. So basically what I'm seeking is similar to LiveCycle where you can 'select all' and then save all the inserted data as a template. I'm really trying to stay away from LiveCycle so I'm hoping Adobe Acrobat can achieve this. I've done extensive research and have only come up with 'replacing pages' so basically the pdf would be inserted 'under' the fillable data field layers. Another thing I have come up with is simply select all Data Fields and copy and pasting these onto the PDF, which works nicely, but this requires a copy of the PDF. Hope this makes sense! Thanks!

I think that George's point is that the Replace Pages functionality would seem to do exactly what you want. You would copy the form you call a template (whether this can be done with templates directly I do not know), open it, then use replace pages to insert the new form you have. The fields that were part of the "template" are retained, but the basic page displayed would be of the new file. You could then move the form fields around to where you want them. If that is not what you want to do, then more of an explanation would help -- but it seems like what you are asking and what George was implying. As to the direct use of a template I can not answer that one since I do not use templates. It may be that you can define a template as the basic form with the fields you want -- but you may know more about templates than I do.

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From: BobLevine <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:01 -0700
To: Michele DeFilippo <[email protected]>
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